Strathspey writer to appear on BBC Scotland book club series
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A forthcoming episode of The Big Scottish Book Club on the BBC Scotland channel will feature writer Amanda Thomson who divides her time living in Glasgow and Strathspey.
In the episode which goes out on November 15, the theme will be nature.
Writer and host of the series Damian Barr chats about nature in literary writing with his guests Thomson, Kathleen Jamie and Luke Turner.
The trio will be discussing their creative interpretations of the world around us and and our relationship with the natural world which has been heightened for many due to the Covid pandemic.
Reading from her book, A Scots Dictionary of Nature, Amanda, Thomson discusses many great old Scots words for animals, birds and weather conditions.
She is a visual artist and writer who teaches at the Glasgow School of Art. She graduated with a first from Glasgow School of Art and has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Thomson's arts-based PhD, from UHI/ the University of Aberdeen, is about the forests of Abernethy and Morayshire. Her artwork is often about notions of home, movement and migration, landscapes and how places come to be made.
Also in the same Big Scottish Book Club episode there is poetry from Heather H. Yeung and the week's book group from Edinburgh, called Open Book Grassmarket, tell Barr what they thought about Jamie's book of collated nature writing Antlers of Water.
According to Jamie in the programme, there is “a great resurgence” in nature writing, which she illustrates with readings from the book.
The Big Scottish Book Club, episode four airs on November 15 from 10pm-11pm on BBC Scotland.
